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UWindsor professors and students will take their experimental interactive documentary to a couple of U.S. cities over the next week.
UWindsor professors and students will take their experimental interactive documentary to a couple of U.S. cities over the next week.
The next time you’re sipping on a pint of your favourite peanut butter porter, take a moment to pour one out for the barbarians.
If it weren’t for those Germanic tribes in northern Europe, says University of Windsor professor Max Nelson, the popular alcoholic beverage may still be considered the “effeminate drink of foreigners.”
“The Greeks held pseudo-scientific beliefs about alcohol, including that wine is hot and manly while beer is cold and effeminate,” Dr. Nelson said.
A competition invites students to answer the question “What do the humanities mean to you?”
UWindsor history professor Guillaume Teasdale will discuss historic Assumption parish Tuesday in a free public lecture marking its 250th anniversary.
The Walrus magazine has published an article on the rediscovery of a documentary first screened during Expo 67.
A public archive documents and celebrates the legacy of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars.
Steven Palmer’s book, Medicine and Public Health in Latin America, has won an award from the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Displays in the Leddy Library celebrate National Nursing Week with materials on the local history of nursing education.
Marty Gervais literally wrote the book on the Windsor Police, and will share stories from its 150-year history in a public presentation May 4.
Digging through the history of Underground Railroad is the subject of a free public lecture Thursday on the UWindsor campus.